Chief Cornstalk at Chautaugua June 21

 An 1872 drawing of Cornstalk from Frost's Pictorial History of Indian Wars and Captivities

Continuing to celebrate and prepare for Chautauqua in Gallipolis June 21-25:

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Chief Cornstalk

This is from our World Book Almanac:

Cornstalk (1720?-1777), a Shawnee Indian chief, became a central figure in Indian wars in Ohio during the late 1700's. He became alarmed when a conflict between other Ohio Indians and Virginians led to an invasion by two armies of Virginians in 1774. 

Cornstalk feared the Virginians would overrun Ohio, and so he led a Shawnee army against one of the Virginian forces. His warriors were defeated at the Battle of Point Pleasant in October 1774. The battle ended what was called Lord Dunmore's War, named after Virginia's governor. In 1777, Cornstalk was visiting Point Pleasant when other Indians killed a settler. 

A mob took revenge by killing Cornstalk, his son, and three other Shawnee. These murders led to years of warfare in Ohio. Cornstalk was probably born in Pennsylvania.

Green, Michael D. "Cornstalk." Academic World Book. World Book, 2016. Web. 13 May 2016.

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Chautaugua Comes Back to Gallipolis

 

 Chief Cornstalk's Gravesite in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

Mark your calendars for the Gallipolis end of June Chautaugua:

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The following is from our Academic World Book:

Chautauqua,  (shuh TAW kwuh), is a system of summer school and correspondence school education founded at Chautauqua Lake, New York, in 1874. The term also refers to traveling groups, called Tent Chautauquas, which had no connection with the original educational movement.

The Chautauqua Institution. Rev. John H. Vincent, a Methodist clergyman, and Lewis Miller of Akron, Ohio, first conceived the idea of setting up a summer school to give instruction to Sunday-school teachers. The first assembly was held at Chautauqua in August 1874. The movement rapidly expanded to include a school of languages (1878), a summer school for public school teachers (1879), a school of theology (1881), and a series of clubs for young people interested in reading, music, fine arts, physical education, and religion. In 1883, the Chautauqua University was established. The university closed in 1898. But the Chautauqua Institution continues a summer adult education program and makes its facilities available to other interested groups.

Borrowman, Merle L. "Chautauqua." Academic World Book. World Book, 2016. Web. 11 May 2016.
   
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May Day (And Good Luck With Finals)

 

Rio Students Around the May Pole - 1959

 

The following is from page 165 of our Folklore of American Holidays: 

A spring festival common in Europe and North America, May Day is celebrated by the gathering of knots, branches, and flowers on May Eve or early on May 1st morning; by the crowning of a May queen; by choral performances at daybreak; by dancing around a May pole; and by mumming (merrymaking in a mask or disguise) from house to house carrying blossoms and soliciting gifts and food.

The sports of May Day symbolize spring, relating human fertility to crop fertility and rebirth. Once it was common for young couples to pair up, often by lot, and “may together" in the woods all May Eve night.

Such goings on, to say nothing of the phallic symbolism of the May Pole, horrified British Puritans.

In his history of the Plymouth colony, William Bradford reports that in 1628, when the nearby Anglican colony at Mount Merry "set up a maypole, drinking and dancing about it . . . inviting Indian women for their consorts," the Pilgrim Fathers sent a military party to cut it down and punish the offenders. 

Since then in America maypole dancing has been, on the whole, a tame affair. 

Cohen, Hennig, and Tristram Potter Coffin. The Folklore of American Holidays. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1987. Print. In Reference Collection on Main Floor: R 394.26973 F666

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